Changing golf balls

Dylan69

Question: Can a player change his/her balls every now and again throughout the course , providing that he/she informs his/her playing partners before striking the ball?

Or does it has to be a legitimate reason to change the ball ie scruff marks,cracks etc...:rolleyes:

PeterJamesDoyle

I think you can change it as you are leaving the green you have just played, but you must tell your partners that you are changing your ball. Dont think it has to be marked or anything.
Then just tell your partners before you tee off on the next hole.

Mister Sifter

You can do it between holes no problem, as long as you inform playing partners. You can only change it mid-hole if there's a defect.

Trampas

Say you are using Pro V1 with a number 1 and that is all you have in the bag.

You have a blue circle around the number on each ball.

Are you still required to inform your playing partners that you are changing your ball?

Myksyk

Was there also a rule about the number of balls you can play during a round or am I misremembering that? Had some notion in my head that pros couldn't take more than 8 balls on a round with them. Might have dreamt it!

PhilipMarlowe

Having all the balls the same number and marked the same way is kinda pointless when it comes to having to hit a provisional. Say you hit your provisional almost the same place as the original and you go down to look and see one titleist 1 just OOB and another just inside the line???

Woodgate

Trampas wrote: »

Say you are using Pro V1 with a number 1 and that is all you have in the bag.

You have a blue circle around the number on each ball.

Are you still required to inform your playing partners that you are changing your ball?

Fair play to you if that's the case, do you throw away all the 2,3 & 4's:D:D

dublinrover

Isn't there a rule about compression must be the same to stop people just hitting the pro v's on the par 3s.

Dylan69

I'm doing this to see if either the Red/Black TM LDP balls work for me on the course.

Cheers boarders:D

Trampas

Woodgate wrote: »

Fair play to you if that's the case, do you throw away all the 2,3 & 4's:D:D

They are the prov balls

Deep Thought

As far as I am aware the Pros can only play with the one type of ball

If they play Pro V then they can only replace it with a Pro V

Not sure if this is the same for Amatuers

GreeBo

all my golf balls are identical so I put a I, II, III on them as I take them from the sleeve. Happened before that I hit two closeby and had no idea which was which

Jasonw

You are only required to be able to identify your ball. there is no rule requiring you to show your ball to your FC's only etiquite ditictates you do so.